Decoding Hoa Minzy’s music video “Can’t Be Together All Lifetime”

Therefore, after almost 2 years of “absence”, Hoa Minzy has officially returned to the Vietnamese music industry with the music video “You Can’t Be Together Throughout Your Life”. The MV was made by director Kawaii Tuan Anh, inspired by the true historical story between Emperor Bao Dai and Empress Queen Nam Phuong, taking the audience “to infinity” to the Nguyen dynasty to witness the tragedies in the life of the Last Empress Nguyen.

Already the product of a true event, about real historical figures, with enough use and meticulousness by the crew.

MV “They Cannot Be Together for Life”: The True Story of Emperor Bao Dai and Emperor of the South

The background of the MV lasts from 1934 to 1946, the two main characters of the MV are Nam Phuong Queen, played by Hoa Minzy and Emperor Bao Dai, played by actor Xuan Phuc.

Emperor Bao Dai (1913 – 1997), whose real name is Nguyen Phuoc Vinh Thuy, was the last emperor of the Nguyen dynasty and monarchy in Vietnam. He was the only son of Emperor Khai Dinh. Unlike his predecessors, Emperor Bao Dai was sent to study in France and has absorbed Western civilization from childhood.

Furthermore, Bao Dai in history and even in the MV is a man who trains, life has experienced innumerable loves: from South Queen Phuong, Ms. Mong Diep, Ms. Phi Anh, Ms. Ly Le Ha or Monique, … He died in France and was buried in a Paris cemetery.

The Queen of the South (1914 – 1963), whose real name is Nguyen Huu Thi Lan, was the last empress of the Nguyen dynasty. She came from a wealthy southern Catholic family and also enjoyed France’s education from an early age. She was the third woman in the Nguyen dynasty to receive the title of empress while still alive, after Thua Thien Cao the empress and Le Thien Anh the empress (the rest were only processed after her death).

She is famous in history as an accomplished empress, but with the last years of her life in solitude, she rarely met the former emperor Bao Dai. She died in France and was buried there.

The ups and downs of the emperor and the last empress of Vietnam

One of the most important scenes that officially opens the “You cannot be together through life” story is the marriage ceremony of Emperor Bao Dai and Empress Emperor of the South, which took place in March 1934. This is the Emperor and Queen’s wedding, and the ceremony to establish the young Nguyen Huu Thi Lan to become the Queen’s Palace.

Before that, Bao Dai’s biological mother, Doan Huy Hoang, Queen Mother (Duc Tu Cung), and court officials had already selected Bao Dai to have a traditional “standard” daughter, Ms. Bach Yen: came from a noble family. teachers and practices of the royal court. However, with the clever disposition of the French, Nam Phuong and Bao Dai met at a gala dinner in Dalat, and then what came would come. According to Queen Nam Phuong’s memoirs, Bao Dai at the time paid attention to him due to his simple outfit and ability to speak French fluently. There are also other documents that claim they had met before, on a train carrying Emperor Bao Dai from France to Vietnam.

This is a historic wedding because, for the first time in the history of the Nguyen dynasty, an empress was a Catholic. This event also caused much controversy in court because it was contrary to tradition and unprecedented.

Accompanying the establishment of the Empress are quite “strict” conditions: Nam Phuong must be established as the Queen of the Palace on the day of the wedding, she must be Catholic and the children must be baptized, Bao Dai The concubines must be abolished and comply with the beginning of marriage of 1 wife – 1 husband.

The years that followed were the happy days when the two had five children, respectively: the Prince of Bao Long Royal Palace, Prince Bao Thang, Queen Phuong Lien, Queen Phuong Dung, and Queen Phuong Mai.

In the MV, it is quite clear that King Bao Dai and Queen Hau lived together as western families. The entire family of 7 people live together in the Kien Trung Palace, the only building built in the European style in the Citadel of Hue, with modern and complete facilities; eat at the same table as a family (according to the previous rule, no one is allowed to sit on the same tray with the Emperor, be it the Dowager Queen or the Queen). The Emperor also used to conduct sports personally to take the Empress to “travel” everywhere, from the Bach Ma mountain forest to the port of Thuan An.

The photo taken on the MV in 1945 was adapted from a real 1950s photo of southern Phuong Hoang in Switzerland.

The promise of 1 husband and 1 broken wife

The next scene in the MV “You Can’t Be Together Throughout Your Life” is the scene where Bao Dai says goodbye to his family in Hanoi. After the August revolution, King Bao Dai abdicated, the whole family went out to live. He went to Hanoi to be a government adviser, Nam Phuong Hoang Hau stayed in Hue to care for his family.

Everything continued as in the MV story: Nam Phuong The Queen gradually discovered Bao Dai where the distant ones had sneaked from one place to another with different women. Then one day it all fell apart, the Empress learned that the Emperor had deceived himself in his days in Hanoi, even more painful when Bao Dai was still writing handwritten letters to his wife to … Asking money to cover a luxurious and frivolous life.

The famous “jealous” letter, but isn’t “Han Tuesday” the last boss in history?

In the MV, “The water spilled the glass” was when the Empress learned that the Old Emperor’s mistress outside of Hanoi was pregnant. Hearing the bad news, the Empress hurriedly took the train to Hanoi, sat in a car, and observed her husband’s figure far in love with another woman. But what the Empress saw was far beyond her imagination: not one, but two lovers, appeared before her eyes.

At this time, Nam Phuong’s beliefs were completely broken when Bao Dai broke all his previous promises of being able to marry himself. The relationship between a wife and a husband was broken, all his promises and vows were no longer there, everything seemed to collapse before his eyes.

However, the scene where Nam Phuong took a train to Hanoi to witness the traumatic scene is a completely fictional detail because, in fact, he has never been to Hanoi and has always been to Hue, the messenger. The news for her is Mr. Pham Khac Hoe. This scene can still be reasonably explained because this is a secret journey that no one knows.

It is also necessary to know about the “identity” of two Bao Dai lovers in Hanoi. The first is Ms. Bui Mong Diep and currently pregnant with an illegitimate child; the second was Mrs. Ly Le Ha, a young woman from Hanoi at the time.

Bui Mong Diep is from Bac Ninh. Before meeting the Old Queen, she had a husband and stepson. Bao Dai fell in love with him when he arrived in Hanoi in 1945, called by his contemporaries “Things Not from the North” even though the Nguyen dynasty shared at the time.

Later, due to the weather, she went to France and lived quite a prosperous life thanks to her sharp mind, during this time Bao Dai seemed to be living with her, but often went out, only when the necessary money was new. Back home. Ms. Mong Diep has a separated daughter with Bao Dai and a son. It can be seen that Ms Mong Diep maintained the traditional beauty with the “full python mold”, “Mr. Flowering Traits”, well suited to form in the MV “Cannot be together with all life”.

Ballerina Ly Le Ha, King Bao Dai’s mistress, does not have a clear image saved in history, only a blurred black and white image. So it’s also hard to judge if Karen is the same or not. Ly Le Ha … In history, she is an exceptional beauty, has earned the title of Vietnam’s First Miss, and is the inspiration for many timeline artists. She also knew Bao Dai when she arrived in Hanoi. The two publicly reveal each other’s relationships, which are often found in expensive places.

After 1946, Bao Dai left Vietnam, living in exile in Hong Kong with Ly Le Ha. Nam Phuong sent Ly Le Ha a hand letter, kind words but still showing authority, without losing the style of a “model ”

This letter became extremely famous, revealed by Ms. Li Le Ha in her memoirs. Introducing the MV “You Can’t Be Together Throughout Your Life,” Hoa Minzy’s team quoted people from the original language, but removed all personal nouns that were specific to a specific character like “Ly Le Ha.” , “From the Dowager Queen”, “Nam Phuong”, … to keep the story captivating the curiosity of the audience.

The idea of ​​”Han Tuesday” when he transformed into Mrs. Ly Le Ha was the “last boss” in the MV but no. Only a time later, the former emperor continued to leave Ly Le Ha to meet a woman with two bloodlines named Hoang Tieu Lan and have another daughter of his own!

The end of the MV “You cannot be together throughout your life” is just an end when Nam Phuong Hoang Hau is meditating in the river.

Historically yes many women went through the life of the last emperor … Bao Dai’s last wife was a French woman named Monique Baudot, the two met and started living together from 1971 until the Old Emperor died in a foreign land in 1997.

Non-Diep also followed Bao Dai to France and died in 2011 in Paris.

Ms. Li Le Ha later married a Frenchman.

Nam Phuong Hoang Hau herself died in 1963 in France alone.